Economic Indexes: Transportation
Services Index

Economic Indexes: Transportation
Services Index

Transportation Services Index
(monthly data, seasonally adjusted)

The
Transportation Services Index (TSI) is a measure of the month-to-month
changes in the output of services provided by the for-hire transportation
industries. The index can be examined together with other economic indicators
to produce a better understanding of the current and future course of the
economy.

Transportation
Services Index

Mar-05

Apr-05

Total Transportation
Services Index (2000=100)

111.6

111.7

Freight Transportation
Services Index (2000=100)

112.5

112.6

Passenger Transportation
Services Index (2000=100)

109.2

109.3

NOTE: The index numbers for the latest three months are
considered to be preliminary. BTS releases the preliminary number for the
latest month and replaces the number for the oldest preliminary month with a
revised number. All other revisions are held until an annual comprehensive
revision of the TSI, which will be released as part of the following June TSI
release.

SOURCE: U.S. Department
of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation
Services Index data, available at http://www.bts.gov/, as of July 2005.